Stevie Nicks Said 2 Iconic Musicians Taught Her How to ‘Spend Money’
Stevie Nicks has been wealthy and famous for decades, but she struggled financially before Fleetwood Mac. Nicks described the difficulties she and her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham had while they were working on music as a duo. When she elevated to stardom in the mid-1970s, she said two other musicians taught her to spend extravagantly.
Stevie Nicks said 2 musicians taught her to spend
Nicks said that now that she has finished her tour, she has more time for new projects. One of her goals is to start designing blankets, as they’re one of her favorite things to gift friends.
“I like to design blankets. Cashmere blankets are my favorite thing,” she told Rolling Stone in 2024. “That is what I buy for my friends if there’s a special occasion. I bought Travis Kelce a blanket.”
She said she came to love cashmere blankets after a shopping trip with The Eagles’ Don Henley and songwriter J.D. Souther.
“Don Henley and J.D. Souther took me into a store in Los Angeles called Maxfield Blue, now Maxfield, in 1977,” she recalled. “And they took me there, and I got my first cashmere blanket. I always laugh and say, ‘They taught me how to spend money,’ those two guys.”
Stevie Nicks said 1 of these musicians made grand romantic gestures
Nicks briefly dated Henley, and she said he often made bold and expensive romantic gestures.
“Here’s one thing that Don did that freaked out my band so much: we’re all in Miami,” she said, per the book Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis. “They’re recording at the gorgeous pink house they’re renting. It’s right on the water, totally romantic. Anyway, he sends a limousine driver to our hotel with a box of presents for me, and they’re delivered right to the breakfast room where everyone’s eating. There’s a stereo, a bunch of cool records. There’s incredible flowers and fruits, a beautiful display.”
Nicks couldn’t help but cringe a bit. While she liked the gifts, she knew Buckingham would be furious.
“The limousine driver is putting all this out onto the table and I’m going, ‘Oh please … please … this is not going to go down well,’” she said. “And they want to know who this is from. And Lindsey is not happy.”
She spoke about J.D. Souther’s recent death
In recent years, Nicks has mourned the deaths of many of her close friends and musical collaborators. One of these people was Souther, who died in Sept. 2024,
“It’s been a terrible, terrible tragedy,” she said. “And then Kris Kristofferson.”
She said she has begun to worry when her assistant tries to bring her news. She’s not sure if she’ll learn that another one of her friends has died.
“[My assistant] came in to tell me something today. And she goes, ‘So, Stevie…’ Every time she says ‘So, Stevie,’ I go like, ‘Please don’t tell me that somebody else died. I wish you would just come in, say my name, and don’t say “so” before, because it’s starting to set me up for tragedy, because we’re old.’”
